Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.
Sidney KnightTag: individuality inspirational happiness courage strength-of-character
We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we are all uncommon. Everybody is special, which means that nobody is. The truth, however, is that human beings are uncommon only up to a point. There are no qualities that are peculiar to one person alone. Regrettably, there could not be a world in which only one individual was irascible, vindictive or lethally aggressive. This is because human beings are not fundamentally all that different from each other, a truth postmodernists are reluctant to concede. We share an enormous amount in common simply by virtue of being human, and this is revealed by the vocabularies we have for discussing human character. We even share the social processes by which we come to individuate ourselves.
Terry EagletonTag: individuality individualism
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Alan SheinwaldTag: individuality wisdom imagination inspirational truth intelligence perception strength honesty experience reality knowledge learning inspiration freedom philosophy belief integrity confidence carpe-diem planning change joy classic be-yourself accomplishment human-nature infinity light mistakes strategy smiling action actions best alan-sheinwald
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
Joe BidenTag: individuality youth
Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.
Raheel FarooqTag: individuality love humanity society
If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that's not what it's about. It can't be about 'My book sold more copies than your book.' It can't be about 'More people went to see my movie than went to see your movie.' If it is about that, then Danielle Steel must be an extraordinarily wonderful author because she sells so many copies. You can't do calculations that way.
What interests me is holding the vision: doing something that is yours and making sure that it can't be like anyone else's.
Tag: individuality
You call me the unhuman," it might say to him, "and so I really am—for you; but I am so only because you bring me into opposition to the human, and I could despise myself only so long as I let myself be hypnotized into this opposition. I was contemptible because I sought my 'better self' outside me; I was the unhuman because I dreamed of the 'human'; I resembled the pious who hunger for their 'true self' and always remain 'poor sinners'; I thought of myself only in comparison to another; enough, I was not all in all, was not—unique.[102] But now I cease to appear to myself as the unhuman, cease to measure myself and let myself be measured by man, cease to recognize anything above me: consequently—adieu, humane critic! I only have been the unhuman, am it now no longer, but am the unique, yes, to your loathing, the egoistic; yet not the egoistic as it lets itself be measured by the human, humane, and unselfish, but the egoistic as the—unique.
Max StirnerTag: individuality society philosophical egoistic
I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind.
Orson Scott CardTag: individuality mind memory essentialism
Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
Joanne HarrisTag: individuality self-esteem
Be my God, so I can just be me.
Laura StoryTag: individuality idolatry
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